Steve Earle Quotes

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Know

• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Me
  • Talent

• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • First

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Sharing

• I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Want
  • Proud
  • Body

• I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Time
  • Day
  • Doing

• When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Me
  • Down

• I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Different
  • Done
  • Enough

• It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Trying
  • Rock
  • Yourself

• In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • School
  • Week
  • Student

• Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Time
  • Law

• Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • Football
  • Questions

• I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Yourself

• I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Identity
  • Songwriting

• The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • May
  • Wind

• For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.

  

  Edward Rutherfurd
  • Imagination
  • Paris

• Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.

  

  Arthur Lismer
  • Jackson
  • Panels
  • Sketcher

• I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• I think, as an actor, you create things for your character that you think will make it more personal to you, because on the day, you want to make sure that you're truly there in the moment.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Character

• I think my father couldn't wait to get home to his wife, but I don't know if he was so keen on us children.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Children
  • Home
  • Father

• I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Home
  • Worry
  • Mountain